Houston got that 3-2 lead last year by going small and relentlessly switching everything, that nullified a lot of the GS ball movement and screening. That played a part in both Chef & Klay going through dry spells. KD was the only Warrior who could consistently create for himself one on one, especially when Houston was wearing Chef down on the other end by attacking him and making him work on every defensive possession. It was a formula that should've gotten the job done.

You add Boogie to the mix now and there's really nothing you can throw at them that they can't counter. Emulating Houstons formula from last year is just gonna be 10x harder.

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Honestly if Andre igudola was healthy they would probably win the series in 5 or 6. They dominated game 3 and blew a lead in the game he didn’t play

It was their rim protection in my opinion, and probably still is with Boogie’s minutes restriction. Before Boogie the warriors were getting ate up inside, even with Dray being Dray he can’t do everything and in the last Jazz game Gobert was feasting.

In the sixers game when boogie was out they put looney on embiid and even though looney was doing great offensively he could not neutralize Embiid.

Honorable mention to Steph’s inability to draw shooting fouls because sometimes that’s a game you need especially if the other team is a good amount, but KD is quite good at it so it hasn’t been much of an issue.

Steph and his ineffectiveness when he's faced with a long, agile defender--that Rockets series really highlighted just how limited he is offensively. I can't see the Rockets doing that again with Ariza, Mbah a Moute + Tucker trio no longer being around.

Even when you run the KD-Steph pick-and-pop and get KD switched onto the smaller guard down low (that's if teams don't just assign a taller defender on Steph in the postseason), you can just do what Houston did which was have Draymond (and Looney's) defender roam around and throw a hard double KD's way.

One injury to either kd or steph and they are done. Bench is weak, boogie can be thrown off his game by either the refs or if you take advantage of his mental weakness. Draymond has been trash on offense this season.